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Authors: Lee Majors M. Fajilan, Christine P.
Manipon, and Gladys M. Navarro. Saint Louis
University, Hotel and Tourism Management -
Faculty of Business Economics, Baguio City,
4. Preservation of Tinguian Cultures in the
Province of Abra. Author: Lorna B. SEPS –
SMME, Llaneza, DepEd-CAR, Abra Schools
Division.
5. How Vulnerable are the Vulnerables in the
Cordillera Administrative Region? Author:
Virginia L. Anceno, Senior Economic
Development Specialist, NEDA-CAR - JRB
SUCs and private academes
invited to the Regional
Technical Committee on
Survey Design
T
he Cordillera Regional Statistics
Committee during its 3rd Quarter Regular
Meeting passed RSC-CAR Resolution No.
7 series of 2016, reconstituting the Regional
Technical Committee on Survey Design
(RTCSD) for CAR. RTCSD was rst created
through RSCC Resolution No. 4 series of 2004
to provide technical advice in the preparation
and development of survey designs for
government censuses and sample surveys to
be conducted in the region. e creation of
the committee is an initiative of the RSC-CAR
in support of the requirements of R.A. 10625
or the Philippine Statistics Act of 2013 for
PSA to establish a Statistical Survey Review
and Clearance System (SSRCS) which aims to
provide assistance and support to the statistical
activities of government agencies, including
the LGUs and the GOCCs. e committee is
tasked to evaluate the conduct of statistical
enquiry, survey, and activity, and ensure
conformity with the standard denitions,
concepts and classications, and the reliability,
comparability and accuracy of statistics
generated.
e RCTSD members are composed
of professionals in survey design and
practitioners who will assist the PSA in
the review, evaluation and clearance of
government statistical surveys or censuses in
the region. e Committee is chaired by PSA-
CAR Regional Director Villafe Alibuyog. e
members include Dr. Maria Azucena B. Lubrica
of the Math, Physics & Statistics Department
College of Arts & Sciences of Benguet State
University, Prof. Rizavel Corsino-Addawe and
Raymart S. Lagunero of the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, College
of Sciences, University of the Philippines
Baguio, Statistician Valerie B. Baniwas of the
Department of Health – CAR, Director of
Research and Development Center Rhoda
Basco-Galangco of University of Baguio,
University Statistician Danilo E. Azarcon, Jr.
of the University of the Cordilleras, and Dr.
Lorence M. Resurreccion, Department Head
of Business Economics School of Accountancy
and Business Management of Saint Louis
University.
With the review of surveys and censuses to be
conducted in the region by the RCTSD, the
burden of respondents are minimized, cost of
data collection reduced, respondents on the
survey are informed and their cooperation
are enjoined. e review covers several areas
such as the need to conduct the inquiry,
duplication, sampling design, forms content
and table format, operational plans and the
statisticaloutputs. - JRB
PSA-CAR Newsletter 5
Total CAR Population
increased by
from 2010-2015
source: Philippine Statistics Authority
105,139
1.90%
employed
persons in
CAR had no educational grade level
source: Philippine Statistics Authority
Solid responsive world-class
authority on quality statistics and
civil registration
“An Act Reorganizing the Philippine Statistical
System, Repealing for the Purpose Executive
Order Number One Hundred Twenty-One,
Entitled “Reorganizing and Strengthening the
Philippine Statistical System and for Other
Purposes” creates the Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA) that shall comprise the
PSA Board and oces on sectoral statistics,
censuses and technical coordination, civil
registration and central support and eld
statistical services.
e PSA shall be constituted from among
the existing personnel of the major statistical
agencies engaged in primary data collection
and compilation of secondary data, i.e., the
National Statistics Oce, the Technical Sta
of the National Statistical Coordination Board,
the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, and the
Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics.
e PSA shall be headed by a National
Statistician (NS) who shall be appointed by
the President. e NS will be supported by
three Deputy National Statisticians (DNS).
e data produced by the PSA shall be
the ocial and controlling statistics of
the government and the PSA will be
characterized by Integrity, Independence
and Professionalism. It shall serve as the
central statistical authority of the Philippine
government on primary data collection and
administer civil registration functions in
the country as provided for in Act No. 3753,
otherwise known as the Civil Registry Law.
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links/au-links/au-act2013.html
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